The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Rowing announces 2022-23 schedule
11.01.2022 | Rowing
The two-time defending NCAA Champions will seek to become the second program to win three-straight national crowns.
AUSTIN, Texas – Two-time defending NCAA Champion Texas Rowing announced its 2022-23 schedule today, featuring the first fall regatta for the team since 2018 and four duals against programs that finished in the top-12 at the 2022 NCAA Championships. The seven-time defending Big 12 Conference champions will also host the conference's championship regatta for the third consecutive year.
Texas will open the season up the freeway in Waco, Texas on Sunday, November 6 at the inaugural Waco Rowing Regatta, a 5K Head Race on the Brazos River. Hosted by the Waco Rowing Center along the banks of Brazos Park East, the course will travel from the bridges of downtown Waco to the bluffs of Cameron Park. The event will mark the first fall regatta for UT since competing at the Head of the Charles in Boston in 2018.
The spring season will begin in Dallas with a two-day dual against SMU on March 10-11 on White Rock Lake. It will mark the second-straight year Texas opens the spring slate at SMU, who the Longhorns swept in six races last season. The Mustangs placed 12th at last year's NCAA championships.
Next up, the Longhorns head to California on April 1-2 for the California Crew Classic, regarded as America's premier spring regatta. Racing is held in Mission Bay Park on the shores of Fiesta Bay-Crown Point. At last year's classic, Texas swept through the prelims and finals on the way to winning four trophies: the Collegiate Varsity Jessop-Whittier Cup, the Collegiate Varsity 4+ Karen Plumleigh Cortney Cup, the Collegiate 2V Jackie Ann Stitt Hungness Trophy and the Carley Copley Cup.
On April 15, Texas will host Michigan, the third consecutive year the Longhorns will square off with the Wolverines in the regular season. The Horns won three of four races in last year's dual at Michigan with victories in the First Eight, Second Eight and First Four. Michigan placed 10th at last year's national regatta.
Texas will close out the regular-season slate with a pair of road regattas at Princeton (April 22) and Virginia (April 24). Princeton placed third at the 2022 National Championship with 118 points, six points behind Texas, winning the national crown in the Four, earning bronze in the First Eight and taking fifth in the Second Eight. Virginia finished ninth at the championships, highlighted by a sixth-place finish in the Second Eight Grand Final.
Texas will look to defend its conference crown when the Longhorns host the Big 12 Conference Championship on Sunday, May 14 on Walter E. Long Lake. UT swept last year's regatta, the seventh consecutive sweep of the Big 12 Championship, and had six student-athletes earn all-conference honors for the seventh-straight year.
The 2023 will wrap with the NCAA Championships when Texas will look to become the second program to win three consecutive championships and the first since Ohio State accomplished the feat in 2013-15. The national regatta will take place Friday-Sunday, May 26-28 on the Cooper River in Camden, N.J. Texas has finished in the top-8 in each of the last seven NCAA Championship regattas, placing in the top-4 in each of the last five.